November 12: There have been many last minute questions regarding details of the assignment. The answer is: Do something sensible and document the reasons for your decision.
November
5:
Question: Do I need to store information about the
events? Are we expecting that each player will have a list of the events
they
have participated in?
Answer:
No. The only thing we need to accumulate about each of the divers is their
accumulated points.
November 5:
Question:What happens in the case of an
injury. Does a team member get bumped immediately, or do we wait for a
regroup?
Answer:To keep things simple all movement (including Injuries and
Recover) from one group to
another (team to hopefuls and hopefuls to team) happens as the result of a
Regroup instruction.
November 3:Here is a tentative marking scheme:
50 for design (20 for actual design, 30 for document)
50 for code (30 for correctness, 20 for commenting and style)
November 1:
Question:Can I use Vectors or trees?
Answer:The answer is another question: "Can you make a case for
using Vectors or trees as the best way to solve the problem?"
Part of your mark will be for your programming. A significant part
will go to your justifications: Why you designed your solution the way
you did including why you used one data structure over
another.
November 1:There was a small error in the handout. In the description of the input "Event Title" should read instead "Event <Title>".
October 31:
Question:
Can you please explain the difference between
1)Team member
2)Team Player
3)Someone aspiring to get in the team
Answer:
Team member and team player are synonymous. They both
mean someone
who
is
on the team. Someone aspiring to get on the team is a person who is not
on
the team but would like to be. If you imagine that you are the 11-th
best
diver in Canada and the Canadian diving team goes to tournaments with 10
divers, then you might be such a person who aspires to get on the team.
October 31: Here is a sample input file:
10 Register Blythe Hartley Oct 10 Miriam Boileau Oct 11 Alexandre Despatie Oct 12 Philippe Comtois Oct 13 Event A Points Blythe Hartley 10 Miriam Boileau 30 Alexandre Despatie 40 Injuries Philippe Comtois Miriam Boileau Team Status Player Ranking Register Emilie Heymans Nov 1 Recover Miriam Boileau Team Status Event B Points Miriam Boileau 10 Team Status and so on... stop